Agora Object: ST 197
Inventory Number:   ST 197
Section Number:   ΟΧ 47
Title:   Lead Lined Coffer
Category:   ST Marble
Description:   A hollowed cylinder, of which the underside is roughly broken, the upper edge worked to receive a lid, while the outside is smooth.
The lid worked down from a table leg (H.A.T.), and so raised and rough picked in the center with depressions like channeling around the edge.
Inside is a close-fitting but separate lead box.
Cylinder of bluish marble.
Lid of Pentelic (?) marble.
Notes:   Cf. AA 319 and J 25.
Context:   By north scarp.
Notebook Page:   70-72
Negatives:   Leica, 6-157, III-80
Dimensions:   H. (with lid) ca. 0.40; Diam. ca. 0.36, (of interior) 0.19-0.23
Date:   17 March 1936
Section:   ΟΧ
Elevation:   -1.45 to -1.85m.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 32 (1963), p. 126, no. L 1, pl. 45.
    Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 365, fig. 26.
    AJA 40 (1936), p. 200, fig. 24.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 6 (1937)
Publication: Hesperia 32 (1963)
Image: 2012.24.0281 (6-157)
Image: 2012.50.0282 (III-80)
Card: ST 197